Beskrivning
Rekindle the memories of air battles won and lost with over 150 glorious, full colour photographs of the greatest World War II aircraft still flying today.
”The Spitfire was a wonderful plane. You didn’t aim the gun, you didn’t even aim the plane, you just aimed yourself. The Spitfire was part of the pilot.”
Though spoken years after his combat experiences, the words of American ”Eagle” James Goodson evoke the special relationship which exists between a pilot and his aircraft. The Spitfire was, and still is, a remarkable machine, fully deserving its legendary status. It was, however, only one of many fighters and bombers which emerged during the 1930s and ’40s from talented design departments around the world, such as Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in Germany and Grumman Corporation in the United States. These aircraft were built in massive quantities and went on to fight each other in a fiercely contested battle for supremacy in the skies over Europe, the Far East and the Pacific during World War II.
Some have been carefully preserved, but they survive today only in their dozens. Though old now, they have retained their qualities and command centre stage at modern airshows, pitting themselves in demonstrations of power and aerobatic skill against their enemies and rivals of all those years ago. It is almost as if time had stood still.
